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Catherine Haley Epstein is an artist, writer and curator. She is Co-Founder of Point + Line, an online site for dialog between artists and art enthusiasts. Catherine has served on the panel for Visual Artist grants for the National Endowment for the Arts and as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Visual Thinking Strategies, a non-profit based in New York City. She is a lifelong advocate for arts in schools and has worked with organizations such as Right Brain Initiative, Levi’s Strauss Youth Arts Program, De Young Museum and Southern Exposure.

This past summer Disjecta, a small non-profit artist space in Portland, Oregon, announced that Michelle Grabner would curate Portland2016, their..

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Instituent Practices

Over the next several months we are engaging the legacy of institutional critique, ongoing institutional and organizational experiments, and Gerald Raunig’s notion of ‘instituent practices’ understood as artistic and curatorial practices that “invent new forms of instituting.” Question include: How do artists and independent projects challenge, comply with, and sometimes imitate traditional institutional forms? Further, how should (self-initiated) organizations consider their own operational mechanisms in order to responsibly address the social, political and cultural fabric in which they operate?

Temporary Art Review is a platform for contemporary art criticism that focuses on alternative spaces and critical exchange among disparate art communities. Temporary is an international network, highlighting both practical and theoretical discourse through reviews, interviews, essays and profiles on artist-centered spaces and projects.